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Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell, 1871. This antique hardcover limited-edition book is bound in brown cloth boards with a paste-down spine label with black lettering. Covers are worn, cover edges and corners show heavy wear, some soil; endpapers browned, with some markings; most inner pages clean. This edition was "annotated" by the previous owner, with notes and pasted-in information throughout - all concerning the edition, illustrations and information containted within. This book was limited to 50 copies; it is illustrated throughout with full-page steel engraving plates. Additionally, this copy was the former property of author William Stone. Stone's bookplate appears on the front inner board, and pasted down to the front endpaper is a letter to Stone from the book's author, Jeptha Simms, dated Sept. 26, 1881. Simms is writing Stone to tell him of a new book he's working on (another history of New York), and offering to get one of Stone's books into the hands of some people in…
Read More Symon Schermerhoorn's Ride: February 8/9, 1690 Writ From Facts And Traditions As Set Down In Ye Old Records Of Ye Massacre Of Skinnechtady, And In Commemoration Of Symon Schermerhoorn's Ride To Save Ye Inhabitants Of Albany From Ye French And Indians by Sweny, Henry Roy - 1910
by Sweny, Henry Roy
Symon Schermerhoorn's Ride: February 8/9, 1690 Writ From Facts And Traditions As Set Down In Ye Old Records Of Ye Massacre Of Skinnechtady, And In Commemoration Of Symon Schermerhoorn's Ride To Save Ye Inhabitants Of Albany From Ye French And Indians
by Sweny, Henry Roy
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Albany: J.B. Lyon, 1910 This is number 131 of a limited edition of 225. Three-quarter leather binding in red with marbled boards. Five raised bands, gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated with woodcuts, reproductions of the original handwritten papers. This printing honors the infamous story of the ride of Symon Jacobse Schermerhoorn and the destruction of Schenectady, New York in 1690. Edgewear, some light foxing, overall pages are bright and clean. Wear and scuffing to spine leather, but gilt is bright. . Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible-Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Illustrated. 6 x 9.5.
- Bookseller Popeks Books, IOBA (US)
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- Edition Limited Edition
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- Publisher J.B. Lyon
- Place of Publication Albany
- Date Published 1910
- Keywords New York, Antiquarian, Leather, Limited Edition, American History
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TRAPPERS OF NEW YORK: OR, A BIOGRAPHY OF NICHOLAS STONER AND NATHANIEL FOSTER
by Simms, Jeptha R.
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Oneonta, New York, United States
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KEARNY'S MARCH The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847
by Groom, Winston
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Owens Cross Roads, Alabama, United States
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New York: Alfred A Knopf. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. 0307270963 . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; B&W Illustrations; 310 pages; Signed by Author .
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Early Rhode Island: A Social History of the People
by Weeden, William B.
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- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly rubbed, library stamps and markings on spine and front and rear endpapers. Penciled ow
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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NY: The Grafton Press. Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly rubbed, library stamps and . markings on spine and front and rear endpapers. Penciled owner name on . front free endpaper.. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth. Index, illustrations. A history of Rhode Island from 1636 through 1790. ; The Grafton Historical Series; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 381 pages .
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Men and Manners in America
by (Hamilton, Thomas)
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1833. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. vi, 410pp. Half leather, raised bands, gilt spine lettering and decoration, marbled endpapers. Corners and spine rubbed, superficial cracking to front inner hinge but hoding tightly, binding is sound, former owner's bookplate and bookseller's small label on front pastedown, owner's name on front free endpaper, contents are mildly toned and there is a very occasional marginal note. A fascinating and often witty critique of American society in the 1830s. Howes H-138.
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A Thousand Days of Magic: Dressing Jacqueline Kennedy for the White House
by Cassini, Oleg
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Rizzoli, 2015-04-28. Hardcover. Good. 11x9x1. Unmarked. Text and full color photos free of highlighting, underlining or writing. Hardcover. Cover shows corner bump (right upper front). Dust jacket has some edge and shelf wear from use or storage but in overall good condition. Binding is in very good condition, solid, square. A currently OOP (out of print), rare, or hard to find book. 2018. Rizzoli. 4th printing. Ships in box, quickly and with care.
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TRAPPERS OF NEW YORK: OR, A BIOGRAPHY OF NICHOLAS STONER AND NATHANIEL FOSTER
by Simms, Jeptha R.
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Oneonta, New York, United States
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Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell, 1871. This antique hardcover limited-edition book is bound in brown cloth boards with a paste-down spine label with black lettering. Covers are worn, cover edges and corners show heavy wear, some soil; endpapers browned, with some markings; most inner pages clean. This edition was "annotated" by the previous owner, with notes and pasted-in information throughout - all concerning the edition, illustrations and information containted within. This book was limited to 50 copies; it is illustrated throughout with full-page steel engraving plates. Additionally, this copy was the former property of author William Stone. Stone's bookplate appears on the front inner board, and pasted down to the front endpaper is a letter to Stone from the book's author, Jeptha Simms, dated Sept. 26, 1881. Simms is writing Stone to tell him of a new book he's working on (another history of New York), and offering to get one of Stone's books into the hands of some people in…
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A NEW GAZETTEER, OR GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF NORTH AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES
by BISHOP DAVENPORT
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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PHILADELPHIA: B. DAVENPORT & CO., 1838 RARE BOOK WITH GREAT DETAIL OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1838. GENERAL DESCIPTION OF NORTH AMERICA, UNITED STATES, DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND CONSTITUTION, STATES, COUNTIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES FORTS, SEAS HARBORS, CAPES, RIVERS, LAKES, CANALS, RAILROADS, ETC. BOUNDARIES, BEARINGS, DISTANCE, POPULATION, CENSUS 1830. TABLES RELATING TO COMMERCE, POPULATION, REVENUE, DEBT, VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS. NEW EDITION. FOLDOUT MAP INSIDE FRONT BY S. AUGUSTUS MITCHELL OF THE UNITED STATES AND ROADS. LEATHER COVER WORN AND INTACT. LIGHT FOXING INSIDE FRONT AND BACK, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. GREAT DETAIL THROUGHOUT. INDEX IN BACK. VERY NICE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.
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The Pictorial History of the American Revolution: With a Sketch of the Early History of the Country, the Constitution of the United States, and a Chronological Index
by Robert Sears (Editor)
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Cazenovia, New York, United States
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Published 1856. Cover as shown with this listing is scuffed and chipped and the spine is missing. Sewn binding has some loose sections. Text is mottled and foxed and there appears to be some water damage. Previous owner name on free front endpaper dated 1857. A rare copy, price reflects condition. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi(O B-1)
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Guide to Richmond and the Battle-Fields
by W. D. Chesterman
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Centreville, Virginia, United States
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Hardcover. Near Fine. Illustrated 68pp. 16mo. Square and tight. Rubbing to spine. Library sticker from the Cadet Armory in Boston front pastedown. Richmond: James E. Goode (printer), 1881.
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Records of the Town of Tisbury, Mass.: Beginning June 29, 1669, and Ending May 16, 1864
by Swift. William S.
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Neenah, Wisconsin, United States
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Title on spine is "Tisbury's Town and Proprietors' Records." One of 500 copies. Spine tanned, a little age darkening, small scratch and a little scuffing on bottom right of rear board but otherwise volume is complete, tight, unmarked and wholly sound.This unique work was meticulously deciphered, arranged and recorded over many years as a labor of love by William S. Swift (1861-1936), civil engineer and surveyor and longtime town clerk of Vineyard Haven, and Jennie Cleveland, assistant town clerk.The Records provides an extraordinary look into the daily lives of Americans (who were not Americans when these records began) from the 17th to the 19th century. It details the real-life problems, concerns, attitudes, and solutions that concerned America from colonial times to the Revolutionary War ("...the unhappy State of the Province in general and of Said County [Dukes] in Particular." p. 206) through to the Civil War, and provides insights into British colonial and American life unobtainable elsewhere.…
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A History of American Art
by Daniel M. Mendelowitz
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Lubbock, Texas, United States
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This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine, edges and corner of the cover. There is some dog-earring on the right corner pages of the book. The pages are white, crisp and clear of any markings. "This is a history of the visual arts produced in the geographical area that now constitutes the United States. Such a book is difficult to title. A History of United States Art sounds awkward and logically might even be construed to exclude the arts of the colonial period. Thus, with apologies to our northern and southern neighbors, I use the title A History of American Art, knowing full well that the terms America and the United States are not synonymous...." - Preface from A History of American Art
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Vietnam: A History
by Stanley Karnow
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This book is in good condition. There is a lot of wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. There is also a substantial amount of staining on the cover boards. The pages are yellowed and tanned. There are also markings throughout the book. "The roots of this book reach back to the early 1950s in Paris, where I began my professional career as a journalist. France, supported by the United States, was then fighting to retain its hold in Indochina against the Vietminh, the Communist-led nationalist movement there. As I reported on the French end of the war, I soon became acquainted with the names and places in Vietnam from a distance, But I scarcely imagined that they were to be part of my own experience. Then, in 1959, I was assigned to cover eastern Asia; the region that included Vietnam became my beat for more than two decades. I visited Vietnam most recently in 1981 for seven weeks, the longest permitted an American correspondent since the Communists gained control of the entire…
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Beeswax: Production, Harvesting, Processing and Procuts
by Coggshall, William L & Roger A Morse
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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New York: Wicwas Press, 1984. 8vo size trade paperback; 192 pages with a few illustrations and photographs Contents include: Beeswax Grading and Economics Harvesting Beeswax Commercial Preparation of Beeswax for Market Testing Beeswax Beeswax in Comb Foundation Beeswax in Candles Beeswax in Art and Industry Showing and Judging Beeswax Home Products including Candles and Car and Floor Polishes Moderate wear and edgewear to covers, light soil to top of book and shelf soil to bottom fore-edge. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Samuel The Seeker
by Sinclair, Upton
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
by John B. Wyeth
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp
by William R. Gillis
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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William R. Gillis. Goldrush Days with Mark Twain (H. Glintenkamp woodcuts). Copyright 1930. Albert & Charles Boni, NY. With an into by Cyril Clemens. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS 6 woodcut illustrations included, Twain frontis (Three old friends), and 5 other historic and realistic woodcut illustrations. MEMOIRS. HISTORY OF NEVADA GOLDRUSH. Summary: Mr. Gillis was a friend of American author/humorist Mark Twain and was with him at Virginia, Nevada in the Goldrush days. In 1859 placer miners in the Great Basin discovered the largest gold and silver strike that had happened in the United States up until that time. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS. Used. Good- Condition. 264 pages. Used. Good condition. First few pages are loose. Frontis is still affixed to binding. Green cloth boards gold titling. No titles left on spine. Spine is sunned.
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A Rebel Came Home: The Diary and Letters of Floride Clemson, 1863-1866
by Lander & McGee (editors)
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Bethel, Connecticut, United States
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Top edge of jacket slightly flared but overall in excellent condition. Book itself is clean and free of any markings except for previous owner's name on first page (Jeanne M. Nixon). Book has some light shelf wear to corners and spine is slightly canted. Solid binding. 189 indexed pages. 0.75" X 6.25" X 9.25" 2cm X 16cm X 23.5cm Part of the series "Women's Diaries and Letters of the Nineteenth-Century South". Illustrated by Olivia Jackson McGee with additional black and white photo reproductions. Includes a family tree. The Revised edition includes additional material in the form of letters between Floride and her mother Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson between July-October 1863 at the height of the Civil War. The main body of the book is Floride's journal from January 1863 until 1866. The main sections concern Florida's trip to Niagara in summer 1863, the journey form Beltsville Maryland to Pendleton South Carolina at the end of the 1864, and the last says of Floride's grandmother Mr.s John C. Calhoun in…
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America's War for Humanity: Including a Complete History of the World War Up-To-date
by Russell, Thomas H
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Loveland, Colorado, United States
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USA: L. W. Walter, 1917. Hardcover with no dust jacket, 1917. Book has heavier corner wear to board corners and edges, and spinefoot, and aging and some soiling to cloth. This book has blue cloth with navy and red text and design. Tipped plate of American flag on center of front board. Interior tanning heavily from age and book has light warping from age and moisture. Has small bookworm hole affecting the upper right corner of pages 23- 83, completely out of the way of any text and only about 1/2 inch in depth. Missing page corner as depicted, affecting the first front illustration page, affects a small amount of caption text, and the edges of 2 photos. Book generally lays flat and is readable and is fairly supple, Binding is decent and will permit reading. Fair condition, but not terrible for its age. 100+ illustrations. A peice of history, as this was basically news when this was printed. RARE EDITION: NOT A REPRINT. THIS IS THE REAL DEAL.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo -…
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Volunteers in the African Bush: Memoirs from Sierra Leone
by David Read Barker
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- 9781457516184 / 1457516187
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Fine. Slight reading wear to corners, otherwise pristine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Not damaged. Suitable for gifting. 163 pages. The 25 authors of this book were volunteers in the first Peace Corps rural community development project in Africa: Sierra Leone, 1965-67. They are also the first group to tell a collective story of Peace Corps volunteers, anywhere. The Peace Corps was in its infancy then, and memories of John Kennedy were strong among the young volunteers. Sierra Leone was also in its infancy in the first few years after independence, before military coups and tribal warfare became common. The authors forthrightly recount their feelings of loneliness and isolation, and their frightening experiences with secret societies and witchcraft, but their uniquely optimistic "can-do" American attitude brought most through a great life experience.
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The Lick Observatory of the University of California, Eleventh Edition, 1947
by Lick Observatory
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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University of California Press, 1947. 11th. Paperback. Author unstated : The Lick Observatory of the University of California - A Brief Descriptive Account Prepared at the Observatory. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1947. Eleventh Edition. Stapled booklet, size is demy octavo (8vo), 8 1/8"/21cm h. Bound in publisher's dark green wrapper stapled to textblock. [vi] pp prelim material, 47 numbered pp, plus three blank. Glossy paper. In addition to many b&w photos, included is information for visitors, organizational info about the observatory, its Chile station, its students, features it observed, acknowledgments. Condition notes: Staples rusted, but holding, moderate wear and scuffing but no tears to wrappers. No notes or highlighting. The observatory is on Mount Hamilton near San Jose, CA. We learn that the observatory was the gift of James Lick, who also left money to support building of a monument to Francis Scott Key in San Francisco, "...a Home for Old Ladies in San Francisco..." and…
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